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13-letter words containing a, l, e, w, i

  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
  • serial writer — someone who writes novels, dramas, etc, presented in separate instalments at regular intervals
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
  • silver wattle — a tree, Acacia dealbata, of the legume family, native to Australia and Tasmania, having feathery, silver-gray foliage and fragrant yellow flowers.
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
  • unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • walkie-talkie — a combined transmitter and receiver light enough to be carried by one person: developed originally for military use in World War II.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • walleyed pike — walleye (def 1).
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
  • water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
  • water blister — a blister that contains a clear, serous fluid, as distinguished from a blood blister, in which the fluid contains blood.
  • water lobelia — Lobelia dortmanna
  • water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
  • water quality — Water quality is the degree to which water is clean, and whether it is suitable for drinking, for making plants grow, or for fish to live in, etc.
  • water soldier — an aquatic plant, Stratiotes aloides, of Europe and NW Asia, having rosettes of large leaves and large three-petalled white flowers: family Hydrocharitaceae
  • water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
  • well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • well-situated — located; placed.
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